Collectivizations

Oleg V. Khlevniuk, Stalin: New Biography of a Dictator (Yale University Press, 2015), 112.

Moshe Lewin, The Soviet Century (Verso, 2016), 70.

Lewin, The Soviet Century, 68. See also Moshe Lewin, Russian Peasants and Soviet Power: A Study of Collectivization (Norton Library, 1975).

Maurice Hindus, Red Bread: Collectivization in a Russian Village (Indiana University Press, 1988), 307.

Hindus, Red Bread, 302.

Silvia Federici, “Feminism and the Politics of the Commons,” in Former West: Art and the Contemporary after 1989, ed. Maria Hlavajova and Simon Sheikh (MIT Press, 2017), 381.

Federici, “Feminism and the Politics of the Commons,” 389.

Federici, “Feminism and the Politics of the Commons,” 386.

See “Collectivizations #1: Paul Goodwin & Jodi Dean,” interview by Jonas Staal, Het Nieuwe Instituut, Rotterdam, July 2, 2020 →.

Joshua Eisenman, Red China’s Green Revolution: Technological Innovation, Institutional Change, and Economic Development Under the Commune (Columbia University Press, 2018), xxiii.

Nicholas A. Jackson, “‘Incentivized’ Self-Adjustment: Reclaiming Sankara’s Revolutionary Austerity from Corporate Geographies of Neoliberal Erasure,” in A Certain Amount of Madness: The Life Politics and Legacies of Thomas Sankara, ed. Amber Murrey (Pluto Press, 2018), 117.

Cited in Ama Biney, “Madmen, Thomas Sankara and Decoloniality in Africa,” in A Certain Amount of Madness, 142.

“Collectivizations #2: Coni Ledesma & Debra Solomon,” interview by Jonas Staal, Het Nieuwe Instituut, Rotterdam, September 2, 2020 →.

Vijay Prashad, Red Star over the Third World (LeftWord Books, 2017), epub.

Siva Vaidhyanathan, Antisocial Media: How Facebook Disconnects Us and Undermines Democracy (Oxford University Press, 2018), 211–12.

Yanis Varoufakis, Another Now: Dispatches from an Alternative Present (The Bodley Head, 2020), 94.

Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power (Profile Books, 2019), 99, 100.

Karl Marx, Capital, Volume 1 (Penguin Books, 1976), 425.

Jodi Dean, “Neofeudalism: The End of Capitalism?,” Los Angeles Review of Books, May 12, 2020 →. In an earlier book, Dean identified surveillance capitalism as a form of “communicative capitalism.” See her Democracy and Other Neoliberal Fantasies: Communicative Capitalism and Left Politics (Duke University Press, 2009).

Dean, “Neofeudalism.”

Naomi Klein, “How Big Tech Plans to Profit from the Pandemic,” The Guardian, May 13, 2020 →.

As Vaidhyanathan argues, “If Facebook were required by law to consider us clients instead of (or in addition to) products to be sold, it would have to generate clear, public, enforceable protections against political and other sorts of manipulation.” Vaidhyanathan, Anti-Social Media, 167.

Annie Kelly, “Apple and Google Named in US Lawsuit over Congolese Child Cobalt Mining Deaths,” The Guardian, December 16, 2019 →.

Cory Doctorow, “‘Poor Internet for Poor People’: India’s Activists Fight Facebook Connection Plan,” The Guardian, January 15, 2016 →.

Vaidhyanathan, Anti-Social Media, 192.

Vaidhyanathan, Anti-Social Media, 193. See also A Thousand Cuts, directed by Ramona S. Diaz, (2020).

“Yanis Varoufakis: Capitalism Has Become ‘Techno-feudalism,’” Al Jazeera, February 19, 2021 →.

Mariana Mazzucato, “Taxpayers Helped Apple, but Apple Won’t Help Them,” Harvard Business Review, March 8, 2013 →.

Rachel Premack, “The Postal Service Is Subsidizing Jeff Bezos’ Quest to Turn Amazon into a Delivery Machine that Competes with UPS and FedEx—But USPS Can’t Break up with Bezos,” Business Insider, May 6, 2020 →.

Written exchange with author, April 27, 2021. See also H. Claire Brown, “Despite Now Offering $15 Minimum Wage, Amazon Still a Top Employer of SNAP Recipients in Many States,” The Counter, November 19, 2020 →.

Wendy Liu, Abolish Silicon Valley: How to Liberate Technology from Capitalism (Repeater Books, 2020), 200.

Vandana Shiva, Oneness vs. the 1%: Shattering Illusions, Seeding Freedoms (New Internationalist, 2019), 65.

“Spain Locks Down & Nationalizes Private Healthcare as Coronavirus Deaths Double & Cases Skyrocket,” Democracy Now, March 17, 2020 →.

Liu, Abolish Silicon Valley, 198, 202.

Paris Marx, “Nationalize Amazon,” Jacobin, March 29, 2020 →.

“Collectivizations #3: Siva Vaidhyanathan & Paris Marx,” interview by Flora van Gaalen, Het Nieuwe Instituut, Rotterdam, September 17, 2020 →.

Global UNI, Progressive International, et al., “Make Amazon Pay: Common Demands,” 2020 → (PDF).

This “double strike” strategy is also at the core of the Make Amazon Pay campaign. (Varoufakis is a founding member of Progressive International, one of the two organizations behind the campaign.) The tactics of the OC Rebels also resonate with recent mobilizations by reddit users, who bought devalued stocks in order to subvert the market.

Varoufakis, Another Now, 145.

See the “Portfolio” section of the TESA Collective website: →.

“Troll Palayan: Clara Balaguer on Design, Decolonization, and Trolling Duterte,” interview by Amber Newman, The Gradient, May 11, 2018 →.

Nick Estes, Our History is the Future: Standing Rock versus the Dakota Access Pipeline, and the Long Tradition of Indigenous Resistance (Verso, 2019), 16.

The Red Nation, The Red Deal: Indigenous Action to Save Our Earth, 2020, 7 →.

Steve Lyons and Jason Jones for Not An Alternative, “The Storm We’ve Been Waiting For,” unpublished manuscript, 2021.

Mark A. S. McMenamin, The Garden of Ediacara: Discovering the First Complex Life (Columbia University Press, 1998), 148.

McMenamin, The Garden of Ediacara, 134.

The painter Doreen Reid Nakamarra describes The Dreaming this way: “In so far as the Dreaming has an ontological status, I argue that it cannot be comprehended outside of the acts which constitute it … Works which are about the Dreaming literally bring the Dreaming into being. Ancestral potency arises within these paintings and is actively produced by them.” Quoted from Stephen Gilchrist, “Everywhen: The Eternal Present in Indigenous Art from Australia,” in Everywhen: The Eternal Present in Indigenous Art from Australia, ed. Daniel Kirby and Georgina Rayner (Yale University Press, 2016), 25.

A further elaboration of the field of Proletgeology will appear in the coming months as part of Not An Alternative’s forthcoming online dossier of essays on the subject of Red Natural History.